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MusicWeb international
2018 May
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Göran Forsling (f. 1942)
2018 May
"Having her roots in baroque music Sandrine Piau has gradually widened her scope and tackled composers like Haydn and Mozart and even ventured into the world of Offenbach. But she has also been deeply involved in art songs ... The new disc can be seen as a third sequel to the other two and the programme is just as far-reaching and unpredictable ... All the positive features of Ms Piau's artistry are fully in evidence ... [On] this highly agreeable recital ... she is accompanied by the eminent Susan Manoff, whose playing is a wonder of clarity and accuracy".
Presto classical
d. 30. Apr. 2018
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Katherine Cooper
d. 30. Apr. 2018
"Editor's choices - April 2018: It's unfailingly beautiful, but without ever lapsing into blandness: Piau's light soprano is as fresh and pure as when she burst onto the scene in the mid-1990s, and she's especially captivating in the mercurial Wolf settings and the indolent languor of Poulenc's Hôtel. The eclectic programme's a treat, too, with comparative rarities as André Previn and Robert Baksa's settings of poetry by Emily Dickinson".
BBC music magazine
2018 September
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Michael Scott Rohan
2018 September
"Choral & song choice: The persistent 'Baroque specialist' label hardly sums up this distinguished French soprano. With her distinctively radiant, secure tone and cut-crystal upper range, her repertoire has always been much wider, not least in her Lieder recordings ... Piau credits Susan Manoff, a strong supporting presence throughout, with introducing her to the Anglo-Saxon repertoire ... Piau delivers them with elegant, unforced expressiveness and, as in German, barely subliminal French intonation ... Altogether a fine, fascinating recital which leaves one wanting more".
The gramophone
2018 July
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Hugo Shirley
2018 July
"Editor's choice: The repertoire is eclectic and, also as before, Susan Manoff offers supremely sensitive and subtle piano-playing to complement singing of intense beauty: beguilingly gentle of timbre, Piau's is a voice that can bloom sensuously at the top, and which she controls exquisitely ... This is one of the most fascinating, satisfying and moving recital discs to have come my way for some time. It's beautifully recorded too".